Past
Exhibitions

Galloway and Dumfries,November, 2004

Artists exhibit at the launch
of GLARE and raise funds for
protest group

The GLARE Launch -

The Art Exhibition

In
addition to scale models,
computer presentations, and displays, there was an exhibition of work
by local artists who generously gave the commission from the sale of
their work to support GLARE.The
exhibition was hung by Stan Wormald who exhibited two landscape
pictures himself, accompanied by Frances
Godfrey, Gene Pick, Derek Pelly, Peter Jeevar,Patricia McCrow, Pam
Roper-Caldbeck, Roy Hooker (who
also drove the Community Bus) and
Alison Chapman.All
the artists were concerned to preserve the natural beauty of the
local and national landscape which had given them such
inspiration over many years.
(see some of their paintings on the pinboard)

The "Hands Across Scotland" campaign was
announced following the successful launch meeting of new campaign group
GLARE (Galloway Landscape and Renewable Energy) in a packed village
hall at Corsock, twenty miles west of Dumfries.

Wind-farm campaigners at the
launch of the "Hands Across
Scotland" scheme in Galloway

Past Exhibition

2003

Mid Wales

Exhibition "Where the Land
Meets the Sky"

(From the Press
Release)

Artist David Bellamy
takes up the sword in the campaign to bring common
sense to the issue of ‘windfarm’ development in a two-month exhibition
at Erwood Station Craft Centre & Gallery, situated six miles South
of Builth Wells, in Mid-Wales. The centre is a few miles from the Black
Mountains and the Brecon Beacons National Park.

The exhibition called ‘ Where
the Land meets the sky’ is presented by a
number of well-known artists with supporting factual material from
eminent economists, scientists and engineers.

Carn Ingli, a watercolour by
David Bellamy

John
Oliver, the Bishop of Hereford,
Environmental spokesperson for the Church of
England, who is an outspoken critic of commercial developments that
despoil the countryside, graciously agreed to come along on the
Saturday evening private view to open the exhibition.

In
a previously published quote he said -“ I am resolutely opposed to
the myopic, cynical, short-term reliance on the so-called proven
technology of on-shore wind, with its hideous despoliation of the
landscape, its invasion by monstrous turbines of a totally alien
industrial character, with their maddening noise and relentlessly
disturbing movements”

David Bellamy and the Rt. Rev. John Oliver at the opening of the
Exhibition
at Erwood Craft Centre

David
Bellamy is no stranger
to the fight to protect the stunning
landscape of Wales. (Recently he has fought long and hard to preserve
the beauty of Clydach Gorge). He strongly believes that artists must
voice their opinion against commercially motivated developers who wish
to ruin the landscape and wild open spaces for a highly questionable
return, especially in this case, where enormous subsidies and spurious
financial incentives are the driving force, not the need for
electricity.

The
Bishop of Hereford had many pertinent
and encouraging things to say on
the
topic of preserving the wild open spaces; the inappropriate
concentration of such developments in Wales, and the need to address
the fact that the very nature of wind makes the reliance on such
devices unable to replace any conventional power production, only
adding to the production of harmful pollution. He was very supportive
of the exhibition, designed to put forward the artist’s perspective on
the preservation of the landscape as well presenting the evidence of
world experts on climate-change, energy resources, engineering and
environmental matters.

Angela
Kelly, artist, and chairman of the ‘Country Guardian,
believes
that “such gigantic structures psychologically upset our view of the
natural world - changing proportions - reducing a majestic oak tree to
a mere bush. Our dreams of restorative wild open spaces are replaced
with visions of ancient skylines dominated by mechanical monsters,
which deaden the landscape and imprison the human spirit, with their
robotic movement and repetitive clone-like structures.” The ‘green issue’ of
wind-power generation is unfortunately also tied
up with politics. What more visible statement could a government hope
to signify that they are addressing the question of saving the planet
from CO2 emissions?

Erwood Craft Centre
and GalleryErwood Station Craft Centre
and Gallery is to be found six miles South
of Builth Wells, on the B4567.Read more

There have been some
very telling comments by visitors to the
exhibition: